Space rock pioneers Hawkwind, who formed around Dave Brock in the late 60s, pursued a ramshackle course round the cosmos as luminaries Lemmy, Nik Turner, Robert Calvert and Michael Moorcock came and went. By the mid 70s the band appeared to have imploded, as those who were there told Prog in 2011.
“People look back now and think of Hawkwind as this sort of hippie peace and love group. But it was never that,” says Lemmy, one of the band’s original self-styled ‘captains.’ “We weren’t looking for peaceful – we were looking for horrid. The spaceship was always broken down with us.”
